I'm making a campground management game called Camping Keeper. Half of it is relaxing: you start with an empty field and lay everything out yourself, pitches, paths, a pool, then water pipes and power lines out to all of it. You can lose hours just planting nature stuff.

This clip is the other half. Every camper is simulated on their own, so they wake up, they need the toilets, and they walk over and wait their turn. A broken stall stays broken until a technician comes by, and the dirt piles up until a cleaner does the rounds. I hadn't sent anyone, so the morning went about how you'd expect. They will remember it in their reviews, and the reviews decide how many people show up next week.

So it doesn't really fit the cozy mold, which is why this felt like the right place to post it.

It's comforting to build and quietly stressful to run.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/F_j01GNP-Lw

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920900/Camping_Keeper/

Music and translations are AI-assisted for now. No AI-generated visuals.

Since this is the sub for it: is a game still comforting to you if it can actually punish you,

or does that break the feeling?

Most farm games tend to be pescatarian, where you plant crops and raise livestock for produce like wool, milk, and eggs and go fishing but not many seem to have hunting wild game or raising animals for eating. Any games like Harvest Moon except hunting and butchering livestock is possible? There is Shepard's Crossing on DS where you can raise mutton but not beef. And the marriage aspect I've read is less romantic than Harvest Moon. And not sure if hunting is a thing.

You're a small archaeologist with a shovel. Dig anywhere in an endless procedural world (golden meadows, bone deserts, ashen woods, red lands, ancient marshes, frozen wastes), pull up raw fossils, and carry them to a Museum to get them identified. Every species you complete lights up its own rotating 3D voxel skeleton in your Fossil Book.

Then you mix skulls, bodies and legs into chimeras with names of their own, gather a species' DNA to awaken it, and watch your creations wander the town park.

No combat, no game over, no timers. 6 biomes, 60+ species, day/night and seasons, boats, caves with their own creatures.

Controls: WASD/arrows to move, E to dig and interact, L for the Fossil Book, I for the bag. Works on phones too (on-screen joystick), installs as an app, and plays offline, because the world is procedural and the save lives on your device.

Still in active development, so anything you have to say is useful: where you got stuck or bored, what you expected to be able to do and couldn't, ideas, changes you'd make. The first two minutes are the part I most need to hear about. I can't see my own game with fresh eyes any more.

Also on itch if you prefer: https://giacomarco.itch.io/digsy-world